Re: [stack] Backus's Turing Award Lecture and Joy.

On 3/22/07, John Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
> With the recent death of John Backus, his Turing Award paper has
> reemerged into the light...
>
>    http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf
>
> It is remarkably relevant in terms of discussing why Joy (and related
> languages)  are such a Good Idea.
>

Which parts are relevant to Joy?  As I scan the paper, particularly
the section-by-section summary at the end, I see some criticism of the
prevalent style of programming.  That seems relevant.  But it looks
like this 30 year old paper was advocating applicative state
transition (AST) systems.  Is there a connection between AST and Joy?

--Joe